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Here, again, we have the names of two other kings of Atlantis. These
four sons probably represented four races, the offspring of the earth.
The Greek Uranos was the father of Chronos, and the ancestor of Atlas.
The Phoenician god Ouranos had a great many other wives: his wife Ge was
jealous; they quarrelled, and he attempted to kill the children he had
by her. This is the legend which the Greeks told of Zeus and Juno. In
the Phoenician mythology Chronos raised a rebellion against Ouranos,
and, after a great battle, dethroned him. In the Greek legends it is
Zeus who attacks and overthrows his father, Chronos. Ouranos had a
daughter called Astarte (Ashtoreth), another called Rhea. "And Dagon,
after he had found out bread-corn and the plough, was called
Zeus-Arotrius."
We find also, in the Phoenician legends, mention made of Poseidon,
founder and king of Atlantis.
Chronos gave Attica to his daughter Athena, as in the Greek legends. In
a time of plague be sacrificed his son to Ouranos, and "circumcised
himself, and compelled his allies to do the same thing." It would thus
appear that this singular rite, practised as we have seen by the
Atlantidae of the Old and New Worlds, the Egyptians, the Phoenicians,
the Hebrews, the Ethiopians, the Mexicans, and the red men of America,
dates back, as we might have expected, to Atlantis.
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